Unfortunately, to get the full benefits, you have to set your deployment target to iOS 7; otherwise, Xcode will dutifully put all of the images into your app bundle but totally ignore all of your resizable insets with only a build warning.

And even if you're targeting iOS 7, you'll still have to deal with typing string filenames correctly. And[everybody knows that stringly-typed code is bad.](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StringlyTyped)

And even if you're targeting iOS 7, you'll still have to deal with typing string filenames correctly. And[everybody knows that stringly-typed code is bad.](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StringlyTyped) (While you're at it, consider replacing your stringly-typed key paths with[a macro to check them at compile time!](https://gist.github.com/kyleve/8213806))

But shucks! The important and awesome part is the editor, and it puts all of the data out in super-readable JSON. We should be able to do a poor man's version that reads in the data and spits out some code to give you most of the benefits.

[](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19457257/6010)

We already fixed the part about code reuse with`objc-colordump`, and now we can fix the parts about failures at runtime. If we generate some code to turn your string identifiersinto compiler-checked constants, we can avoid a whole class of problems.

We already fixed the part about code reuse with`objc-colordump`, and now we can fix the parts about failures at runtime. If we generate some code to turn your string identifiers—and that's any kind of string identifier, be it a view controller identifier, a segue identifier, or a cell reuse identifier—into compiler-checked constants, we can avoid a whole class of problems.

Call`objc-identifierconstants` with the`.storyboard` paths as arguments from the directory into which it should output the code.

For a storyboard named "Foo" withstring identifiers"Bar" and "Baz" somewhere in it, you'll get`FooStoryboardIdenfitiers.h` and`FooStoryboardIdentifiers.m` with`extern NSString *const FooStoryboardBarIdentifier` and`extern NSString *const FooStoryboardBazIdentifier` in it. Put them in your DerivedSources folder and you're good to go.

For a storyboard named "Foo" withview controller identifier"Bar" and segue identifier "Baz" somewhere in it, you'll get`FooStoryboardIdenfitiers.h` and`FooStoryboardIdentifiers.m` with`extern NSString *const FooStoryboardBarIdentifier` and`extern NSString *const FooStoryboardBazIdentifier` in it. Put them in your DerivedSources folder and you're good to go.

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<false/>

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<string>BE458A6D-99D5-4693-A8EE-24D91F3893FE</string>

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